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In conditioning, reward or punishment administered regularly after each correct response classical conditioning theory; instrumental conditioning.  

A test of additional functioning in which the subject is presented with a series of letters at a rapid rate and must respond to the appearance of one particular letter or sequence of letters.  

As applied to emergency communications systems, a rating applied to receivers and transmitters to indicate their capability for use in a continuous duty cycle, intermittent duty.  

In education, the theory that learning occurs gradually and consists of the slow accumulation of increments of a tendency to respond in a particular way.  

In education, college or university-sponsored programs that range from skills building seminars to a degree program. Formal education obtained by a health professional after completing his degree and post-graduate training. Such education is usually intended to improve or maintain the professional’s competence. For physicians, some, but not all. States require a specified number of hours…

In family planning, pertaining to the percentage of women who continue to use a contraceptive device after a specified period of time.  

In research, a condition that is necessary for an effort to occur but not sufficient to make it appear.  

A leadership concept that hypothesizes that in any given leadership situation, success is primarily determined by the following: (a) the degree to which the task being performed by the following is structured, (b) the degree of the position power possessed by the leader, and (c) the type of relationship that exists between leader and followers.…

There is not one best way to handle a problem. Concerns the determination of technique or approach that will work best under a given set of circumstances.  

Money appropriated by the respect houses for incidental operating expenses.